The Network Design Manager is responsible managing a team for designing, optimizing, and continuously improving the end-to-end logistics network for finished vehicles. This role ensures cost-efficient, reliable, and scalable transport solutions from manufacturing plants and ports to dealerships or end customers, while maintaining service level targets and compliance standards.
- Develop and optimize finished vehicle distribution networks (plant → port → yard → dealer)
- Conduct network modeling and scenario analysis to support new product launches, plant expansions, or market shifts
- Design multimodal transportation solutions (road, rail, sea)
- Evaluate location strategies for ports, yards, and distribution hubs
- Analyze transportation costs, lead times, and service performance
- Identify cost-saving initiatives through route optimization, consolidation, and modal shifts
- Monitor KPIs such as delivery lead time, damage rates, dwell time, and yard utilization
- Use optimization tools and software (e.g., Llamasoft, SAP TM, OTM, Power BI, Excel modeling)
- Perform demand forecasting and capacity planning
- Build business cases and ROI analyses for network changes
- Partner with Manufacturing, Sales, Procurement, and Regional Logistics teams
- Work with 3PLs, ocean carriers, rail operators, and trucking providers
- Support contract negotiations with data-driven insights
- Assess risks related to capacity constraints, geopolitical issues, and port congestion
- Ensure compliance with trade regulations, safety standards, and OEM requirements
- Develop contingency and resilience plans
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a focus on Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or related field
- 8+ years of network design experience for logistics or related experience
- Proven analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities
- Strong Excel skills needed
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Demonstrated change leadership attributes
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a focus on Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or related field
- 8+ years of network design experience for logistics or related experience
- Proven analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities
- Strong Excel skills
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Demonstrated change leadership attributes
Stellantis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stellantis and has not been reviewed or approved by Stellantis.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Contract-driven increases lifted hourly wages roughly 25% over 4.5 years and restored cost-of-living adjustments, pushing top rates near $42 per hour by the end of the agreement. Union hourly positions appear to have benefited most since the 2023 deal.
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Affordable Benefits — UAW-represented hourly workers pay no premiums and about 3% of total healthcare costs while receiving comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and wellness coverage. This creates materially lower out-of-pocket costs for represented hourly roles.
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Retirement Support — Post-2007 hourly hires receive a 10% employer 401(k) contribution and legacy workers saw defined-benefit improvements with retiree bonuses. Salaried roles also cite a 401(k) with employer match and contribution up to a maximum of 8%.
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What We Do
Our storied and iconic brands embody the passion of their visionary founders and today’s customers in their innovative products and services: they include Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall and mobility brands Free2move and Leasys. Powered by our diversity, we lead the way the world moves – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which we operate.
